Lorenzo Castore: Patrizia Cavalli. Che cosa è mio?

Two months after the passing of Patrizia Cavalli, a central figure in late twentieth-century Italian poetry, Castore’s camera moves through the rooms in which the writer lived and built her inner universe for over fifty years.

The result is a sequence of more than two hundred images, in color and black and white: a final, intimate look at the house on Via del Biscione before it was dismantled. From wide views to the most minute details—drawers, utensils, objects, works of art—each image contributes to a material and understated narrative, in which objects, walls, and spaces become fragments of a portrait in absence. Alongside Castore’s photographs, a video by Gianni Barcelloni from the series Il navigatore. Ritratti di scrittori will be shown, in which Patrizia Cavalli reads her poems while moving through her home, and, together with the director, reflects on life, boredom, love, death, happiness, and unhappiness.

The opening will take place on Friday, April 17 from 6 pm, in the presence of the artist, who will sign copies of the book. For the occasion, we will host a multi-voice reading drawn from the poet’s major collections.

The exhibition will run until Saturday, May 2, and will be accompanied by a selection of NERO titles available in the bookshop.